Building Cable's New Fighting Machine

AUTHOR(S)

Donohue, Steve

PUB. DATE

June 2004

SOURCE

Multichannel News;6/7/2004, Vol. 25 Issue 23, p30

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the possible reentry of Time Warner Cable into the New York Interconnect, a cable interconnect co-owned by Comcast and Cablevision System Corp. that allows media buyers to place advertisements across multiple cable systems. Confirmation by Time Warner Advertising Sales President Larry Fischer that the cable network is negotiating a possible reentry into the interconnect; Idea behind interconnects; Difference between soft-interconnects and hard interconnects.

Provides information about the cable television companies in New Hampshire. Why the services and rates in cable television vary; List of the basic rates, commercial rates, and bulk account rates offered by the companies.

Focuses on the development of cable televisions in the United States. Capabilities of satellite on the relay services of television stations; Launching of the CNN news channel; Complications of satellite signals among pay cable channel.

This article explores the deployment of the OpenCable Platform in the U.S. in 2007. According to the author, cable operators in the country expressed their commitment to launch the platform. He cites the move of Time Warner Cable to deploy thousands of OpenCable-based set-up boxes in the third...

Analyzes the withdrawal of Time Warner Cable from the New York Interconnect in 1998. Impact of the withdrawal on the cable interconnect's revenue; Reasons behind the network's withdrawal; Negotiations being conducted regarding a possible reentry of the network into the interconnect as of June...

Reports the opening of Passage cable television technology to the conditional access systems of second vendors. Savings from the technology; Significance of open standards; Negotiations with Sony, developer of the technology.